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Cheryle Rudd, left, and Kitty Lambert are pronounced legally married at the stroke of midnight, at the brink of Niagara Falls, in Niagara Falls, New York July 24, 2011, as the city's mayor, Paul Dyster checks his watch to verify the time.

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